FALLEN
Staff Sgt. Toby Wayne Mallet
Age: 26
Hometown: Kaplan
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany
Date of casualty: April, 9, 2004
Incident: Mallet died after a rocket-propelled grenade struck his patrol vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Lee Myles Godbolt
Age: 23
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment, New Orleans
Date of casualty: March 26, 2005
Incident: Godbolt was one of two guardsmen killed on patrol in Baghdad when a suicide bomber detonated a booby-trapped vehicle near their Humvee.
Capt. Gussie Mae Jones
Age: 41
Hometown: Shreveport
Unit: U.S. Army 31st Combat Support Hospital, Fort Bliss, Texas
Date of casualty: March 7, 2004
Incident: Jones died after suffering an apparent heart attack at a Baghdad hospital where she worked as a surgical nurse.
Sgt. Paul Martin Heltzel
Age: 39
Hometown: Baton Rouge
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, Eunice.
Date of casualty: March 15, 2005
Incident: Heltzel was killed while on mounted patrol in Baghdad when a booby-trapped vehicle exploded.
Cpl. Joseph Clarence Thibodeaux III
Age: 24
Hometown: Lafayette
Unit: U.S. Army’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division (Light,) Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Date of Casualty: Sept. 1, 2004
Incident: Thibodeaux was killed in Hawijah when his patrol came under attack.
Sgt. Christopher James Ramsey
Age: 20
Hometown: Batchelor
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1088th Engineer Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Roads
Date of casualty: Jan. 28, 2005
Incident: Ramsey and two others in his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Robin Vincent Fell
Age: 22
Hometown: Shreveport
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, Shreveport
Date of casualty: May 19, 2005
Incident: Fell and another member of his unit were shot during combat in Baghdad.
Pvt. Joshua Cain Burrows
Age: 20
Hometown: Bossier City
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: Nov. 26, 2006
Incident: Burrows and two other soldiers were killed in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle.
Lance Cpl. Justin Daniel McLeese
Age: 19
Hometown: Covington
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton Calif.
Date of casualty: Nov. 13, 2004
Incident: McLeese and two other Marines died in combat operations near Al Anbar Province.
Staff Sgt. Bryan Anthony Lewis
Age: 32
Hometown: Bunkie
Unit: U.S. Army 258th Military Police Company, 519th Military Police Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, Fort Polk
Date of casualty: March 13, 2006
Incident: Lewis was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in a convoy north of Rustamiyah.
Staff Sgt. Robert Wesley Sweeney III
Age: 22
Hometown: Pineville
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Infantry Brigade, Lake Charles
Date of casualty: Jan. 10, 2005
Incident: Sweeney and another soldier from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
Spec. William Stephen Hayes III
Age: 23
Hometown: Slidell
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: Feb. 5, 2006
Incident: Hayes died from a non-combat injury in Baghdad
Cpl. Marcus Anthony Cain
Age: 20
Hometown: Jennings
Unit: U.S. Army 4th Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: Sept. 14, 2006
Incident: Cain was killed when an improvised explosive device planted in a vehicle detonated near his West Baghdad substation.
Sgt. Brandon Lee Teeters
Age: 21
Hometown: Centerville
Unit: U.S. Army 8th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: April 20, 2006
Incident: Teeters died May 12, 2006, in Ludwigshafen, Germany, from injuries sustained April 20, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley fighting vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad.
Staff Sgt. Jacob Gerald McMillan
Age: 25
Hometown: Lafayette
Unit: U.S. Army Headquarters Company, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska
Date of casualty: Dec. 20, 2006
Incident: McMillan died from wounds suffered in Baghdad after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle and was followed by small-arms fire.
Lance Cpl. Myles Cody Sebastien
Age: 21
Hometown: Opelousas
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Dec. 20, 2006
Incident: Sebastien was killed during combat operations in Al Anbar Province.
Lance Cpl. Derrick J. Cothran
Age: 21
Hometown: Avondale
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: April 15, 2006
Incident: Cothran was killed when his vehicle was attacked during combat operations in Al Anbar Province.
Pfc. Lionel Ayro
Age: 22
Hometown: Jeanerette
Unit: U.S. Army 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Date of casualty: Dec. 21, 2004
Incident: Ayro and 12 other soldiers died when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive near their dining hall in Mosul.
Sgt. Bernard Leon Sembly II
Age: 25
Hometown: Bossier City
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, Shreveport
Date of casualty: May 19, 2005
Incident: Sembly and another member of his unit were shot during combat in Baghdad.
Spec. Johnathan Bryan Chism
Age: 22
Hometown: Prairieville
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 377 Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska
Date of casualty: Jan. 20, 2007
Incident: Chism and three other soldiers were abducted and shot to death by men dressed in U.S. military-style uniforms who had driven onto the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala and attacked U.S. officials and Iraqis attending a meeting. One other soldier was killed during the attack.
Spec. James Peter Lambert
Age: 23
Hometown: Baton Rouge/Hammond
Unit: U.S. Army 3rd Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery, 10th Mountain Division (light infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.
Date of casualty: May 25, 2004
Incident: Lambert and another soldier died in Fallujah when an improvised explosive device exploded near their patrol.
Staff Sgt. Ronnie Lee Sanders
Age: 26
Hometown: Shreveport
Unit: U.S. Army 407th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Date of casualty: Feb. 3, 2007
Incident: Sanders was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Joshua Barrett Madden
Age: 21
Hometown: Minden
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Date of casualty: Dec. 6, 2006
Incident: Madden and four other soldiers died when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle during a patrol in Hawijah.
Pfc. Charles Clayton Persing
Age: 20
Hometown: Albany
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division(Light Infantry,) Fort Drum, N.Y.
Date of casualty: July 19, 2004
Incident: Persing and another member of his unit were killed in Scandaria when mortar rounds hit their forward operating base.
Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas
Age: 36
Hometown: Frierson/St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Unit: U.S. Army Battery C, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: April 28, 2004
Incident: Thomas was killed in a vehicle accident in Baghdad
Pfc. Torey JonTeal Dantzler
Age: 22
Hometown: Columbia
Unit: U.S. Army 66th Transportation Company, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date of casualty: July 22, 2004
Incident: Dantzler was killed in Samarra by an improvised explosive device that detonated near his convoy vehicle.
Cpl. Chad W. Powell
Age: 22
Hometown: West Monroe
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: June 23, 2005
Incident: Powell and another Marine were killed in Fallujah when a suicide bomber in a vehicle detonated near their convoy.
Sgt. Julia Velinda Atkins
Age: 22
Hometown: Bossier City
Unit: U.S. Army 64th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: Dec. 10, 2005
Incident: Atkins died when an improvised explosive device detonated near her Humvee during a patrol in Baghdad.
Staff Sgt. Jens Eduard Schelbert
Age: 31
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.
Date of casualty: Oct. 1, 2005
Incident: Schelbert died in Ar Ramadi when his forward operating base was attacked by enemy forces using indirect fire.
Sgt. Isiah Joseph Sinclair
Age: 31
Hometown: Natchitoches
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 156th Armored Regiment, Shreveport.
Date of casualty: March 26, 2005
Incident: Sinclair was one of two guardsmen killed on patrol in Baghdad when a suicide bomber detonated a booby-trapped vehicle near their Humvee.
Sgt. 1st Class Terry O. P. Wallace
Age: 33
Hometown: Winnsboro
Unit: U.S. Army 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: June 27, 2006
Incident: Wallace was fatally wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Taji.
Pfc. Chase Austin Edwards
Age: 19
Hometown: Lake Charles
Unit: U.S. Marines 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: April 6, 2006
Incident: Edwards was killed during combat operations in Al Anbar Province.
1st Sgt. Michael Joseph Bordelon
Age: 37
Hometown: Bayou Vista
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.
Date of casualty: April 23, 2005
Incident: Bordelon died May 10, 2005, at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from injuries sustained in Mosul when a booby-trapped vehicle exploded near his Stryker.
Sgt. Bradley John Bergeron
Age: 25
Hometown: Houma
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Bergeron and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Jeffrey Lynn Kirk
Age: 24
Hometown: Baton Rouge
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Date of casualty: Dec. 12, 2004
Incident: Kirk died from enemy action in Al Anbar Province.
1st Lt. Christopher William Barnett
Age: 32
Hometown: Baton Rouge
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, Shreveport.
Date of casualty: Dec. 23, 2004
Incident: Barnett was killed in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Sgt. Huey Pierce Long Fassbender III
Age: 24
Hometown: LaPlace
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Fassbender and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. 1st Class Kurt Joseph Comeaux
Age: 34
Hometown: Raceland
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Comeaux and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Floyd George Knighten Jr.
Age: 55
Hometown: Olla
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard 1087th Transportation Support Company, Louisiana Army National Guard, Jena
Date of casualty: Aug. 9, 2003
Incident: Knighten died of an apparent heat-related injury while in a convoy between Camp Bilad and Camp Pennsylvania.
Lance Cpl. John Edward Hale
Age: 20
Hometown: Shreveport
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Oct. 6, 2006
Incident: Hale was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Al Anbar Province.
Staff Sgt. Nicholas Joseph Olivier
Age: 26
Hometown: Shreveport/Carencro
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, Pineville.
Date of casualty: Feb. 23, 2005
Incident: Olivier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on foot patrol in Baghdad.
Staff Sgt. William Francis Manuel
Age: 34
Hometown: Kinder
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Infantry Brigade, Lake Charles
Date of casualty: Jan. 10, 2005
Incident: Manuel and another soldier from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
Lance Cpl. Donald Eugene Champlin
Age: 28
Hometown: Natchitoches
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Aug. 27, 2006
Incident: Champlin died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, Aug. 28, 2006, from wounds received during combat operations in Al Anbar Province on Aug. 27, 2006.
Cpl. Joseph Claude Dumas Jr.
Age: 25
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
Date of casualty: Oct. 17, 2006
Incident: Dumas and three other soldiers were killed in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Lee Hamilton Deal
Age: 23
Hometown: West Monroe
Unit: U.S. Navy, operationally assigned to 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team-5, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) and permanently assigned to 2nd Marine Division Fleet, Marine Force Atlantic, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: May 17, 2006
Incident: Deal was killed while helping to clear a suspected enemy stronghold in Al Anbar Province
Sgt. Willard Todd Partridge
Age: 35
Hometown: Vidalia
Unit: U.S. Army 170th Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Date of casualty: Aug. 20, 2005
Incident: Partridge died when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad.
Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Colt Kinchen
Age: 22
Hometown: French Settlement/Salcha, Alaska
Unit: U.S. Marine Forces Reserves, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, San Antonio, Texas. Kinchen was attached to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Date of casualty: April 4, 2005
Incident: Kinchen was killed in an explosion during combat in Al Anbar Province.
Sgt. 1st Class Peter James Hahn
Age: 31
Hometown: Metairie
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Iberia
Date of casualty: May 24, 2005
Incident: Hahn was killed by small-arms fire in Baghdad when enemy forces attacked his observation point.
Sgt. David Joseph Murray
Age: 23
Hometown: Clinton
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1088th Engineer Battalion, New Roads
Date of casualty: June 9, 2005
Incident: Murray was killed when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad.
Staff Sgt. George Ray Draughn Jr.
Age: 29
Hometown: Shreveport/Hiram, Ga.
Unit: Georgia Army National Guard’s 108th Cavalry Regiment, 48th Infantry Brigade, Griffin, Ga.
Date of casualty: Sept. 1, 2005
Incident: Draughn and another soldier were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Humvee during a patrol in Baghdad.
Sgt. Seth Randell Trahan
Age: 20
Hometown: Crowley
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, Crowley
Date of casualty: Feb. 19, 2005
Incident: Trahan was killed when an improvised explosive device exploded while he was on patrol in Baghdad.
Lance Cpl. Ryan Stanley McCurdy
Age: 20
Hometown: Baton Rouge
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters Company, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Jan. 5, 2006
Incident: McCurdy and another Marine were fatally wounded by small-arms fire during combat in Fallujah.
Sgt. Matthew Joseph Vosbein
Age: 30
Hometown: Metairie
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Date of casualty: Aug. 29, 2006
Incident: Vosbein was fatally wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated during a foot patrol in Sadr Al Yusifiyah.
1st Lt. Ashley Laine Henderson Huff
Age: 23
Hometown: Baton Rouge/Belle Meade, N.J.
Unit: U.S. Army 549th Military Police Company, 385th Military Police Battalion, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Date of casualty: Sept. 19, 2006
Incident: Henderson-Huff was fatally wounded in Mosul when a suicide bomber in a vehicle detonated an explosive device near her mounted patrol during combat operations.
Sgt. Jay Ryan Gauthreaux
Age: 26
Hometown: Vacherie
Unit: U.S. Army 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: Dec. 4, 2006
Incident: Gauthreaux died in Balad from injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during a patrol in Baqubah.
Staff Sgt. Christopher James Babin
Age: 27
Hometown: Houma
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Babin and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Craig Lewis Nelson
Age: 21
Hometown: Bossier City
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment, Shreveport
Date of casualty: Dec. 16, 2004
Incident: Nelson died in the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 29, 2004, from injuries from an improvised explosive device that detonated near his vehicle in Baghdad.
Pfc. David Paul Burridge
Age: 19
Hometown: Lafayette
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Date of casualty: Sept. 6, 2004
Incident: Burridge and six other Marines died due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province.
Lance Cpl. Larry Lloyd Wells
Age: 22
Hometown: Mount Hermon
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps Unit Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Date of casualty: Aug. 6, 2004
Incident: Wells was killed in a fight with the enemy in An Najal Province.
Spec. Robert L. DuSang
Age: 24
Hometown: Mandeville
Unit: U.S. Army 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk
Date of casualty: June 30, 2004
Incident: DuSang was killed in Navstar when the 5-ton vehicle he was riding in overturned after a tire blew out.
Staff Sgt. Craig Davis
Age: 37
Hometown: Opelousas
Unit: U.S. Army 603rd Transportation Company, 142nd Corps Support Battalion, Warrior Brigade, Fort Polk.
Date of casualty: Jan. 8, 2004
Incident: Davis died with eight others when their UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed near Fallujah.
Spec. Levi Bond Kinchen
Age: 21
Hometown: Albany
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk
Date of casualty: Aug. 9, 2003
Incident: A fellow soldier tried to wake Kinchen and noticed he was not breathing.
Cpl. David Stephen Stewart
Age: 24
Hometown: Bogalusa
Unit: U.S. Marine Forces Reserves, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Gulport, Miss.
Date of casualty: Aug. 3, 2005
Incident: Stewart and 13 other Marines died when an improvised explosive device detonated near their amphibious assault vehicle in combat operations south of Haditha.
Sgt. Rene Knox Jr.
Age: 22
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: U.S. Army 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Date of casualty: Feb. 13, 2005
Incident: Knox and two members of his unit were killed in Balad when their vehicle overturned.
Lance Cpl. Matthew Ryan Barnes
Age: 20
Hometown: West Monroe
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Feb. 14, 2006
Incident: Barnes and another member of his unit were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked their vehicle near Al Qa’im.
Staff Sgt. Jonathan Ray Reed
Age: 25
Hometown: Krotz Springs
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1088th Engineer Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Roads
Date of casualty: Jan. 28, 2005
Incident: Reed and two others in his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
Sgt. Michael Scott Evans II
Age: 22
Hometown: Marrero
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s 1088th Engineer Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Roads
Date of casualty: Jan. 28, 2005
Incident: Evans and two others in his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
Cpl. Kyle J. Grimes
Age: 21
Hometown: Northampton, Pa./Baton Rouge
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Hawaii
Date of casualty: Jan. 26, 2005
Incident: Grimes was one of 30 Marines and a Navy corpsman killed when a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed in a sandstorm near Ar Rutbah
Sgt. Warren Anthony Murphy
Age: 29
Hometown: Marrero
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Murphy and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Lance Cpl. Jon Eric Bowman
Age: 21
Hometown: Dubach
Unit: U.S. Marine Corps 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Date of casualty: Oct. 9, 2006
Incident: Bowman was manning a machine gun on a Humvee when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle in Ramadi.
Spec. Armand L. Frickey
Age: 20
Hometown: Houma
Unit: Louisiana Army National Guard’s B Company, 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry, 256th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Houma
Date of casualty: Jan. 6, 2005
Incident: Frickey and five other guardsmen from his unit were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad.
Pvt. Mark W. Graham
Age: 22
Hometown: Lafayette
Unit: U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: March 2, 2007
Incident: Graham died March 7, 2007, at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, from injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit during a patrol in Baghdad.
Spec. Jeremy Michael Heines
Age: 25
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: U.S. Army Company C, 1st Battalion, 9th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of casualty: June 26, 2004
Incident: Heines died when his patrol was hit by small-arms fire and a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad.
Command Sgt. Maj. Edward Carl Barnhill
Age: 50
Hometown: Shreveport
Unit: U.S. Army Reserves 431st Civil Affairs Battalion, North Little Rock, Ark.
Date of casualty: May 14, 2004
Incident: Barnhill died of an apparent heart attack in Baghdad
Staff Sgt. Taft Virgil Williams
Age: 29
Hometown: New Orleans
Unit: U.S. Army 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colo.
Date of casualty: Aug. 12, 2003
Incident: Williams was killed by an improvised explosive device that detonated near his vehicle near Ar Ramadi.
Pfc. Wilfred D. R. Bellard
Age: 20
Hometown: Lake Charles
Unit: U.S. Army 41st Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Date of casualty: April 4, 2003
Incident: Bellard and two other soldiers were killed when their vehicle fell into a ravine.
